medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I did never know that Calimero ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimero ) has a patron saint ...
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> 2) Calimerus of Milan (d. later 2d cent., supposedly). C. (also Calimerius) is an early saint of Milan. His modern church there goes back through several predecessors to a small structure already dedicated to him and described by the poet Ennodius as early and aged when it was expanded in the early sixth century. During a recognition of his remains in the eighth century the tomb containing his remains was found to be waterlogged. That is now explained by reference to seepage from one of Milan's numerous underground canals but it gave rise to a legend, enshrined in the C.'s medieval Passio (BHL 1522) in the Milanese church's eleventh-century _Datiana historia_, that preserves his identity as a bishop but gives him a Greek origin and has him martyred in the second century with his body then being thrown down a well. It was presumably C.'s status as an early Milanese martyr that got him his place in the Ambrosian Canon of the Mass.
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